2024 – 2025 Season
We’re thrilled to unveil our captivating season, brimming with innovative productions that will ignite your senses and stir your soul.
Theatre • Puppetry • Live Music • Storytelling •
Theatre • Puppetry • Live Music • Storytelling •
GUEST ARTIST SERIES: Puppetry
Open Eye Theatre presents the Puppeteers of America’s Minneapolis Puppetry Palate: A Taste of Puppetry
MIGRACIONES/MIGRATIONS
August 15, 2024
Created & Performed by Paradox Teatro
This acclaimed performance explores the global migration situation, and draws on the artists' own surreal experiences in the U.S. immigration system while inspiring compassionate perspectives from the global refugee crisis.
GUEST ARTIST SERIES: Puppetry
Open Eye Theatre presents the Puppeteers of America’s Minneapolis Puppetry Palate: A Taste of Puppetry
THE AMAZING GNIP GNOP CIRCUS
August 17, 2024
Created & Performed by Z Puppets Rosenschnoz
Step right up and allow Z Puppets to astound you a glow-in-the-dark, ping pong ball spectacular!
OPEN EYE MAINSTAGE: Theatre / Music
Open Eye Theatre presents a Warm Sandwich production
MOONWATCHERS
September 5 - 22, 2024
Created & Performed by Corey Farrell and Nigel Berkeley
Inspired comic clowning, live music, and all manner of lunar lunacy abound in this sci-fi vaudeville show about two “moon janitors” that was a runaway hit of the 2022 MN Fringe Festival.
OPEN EYE MAINSTAGE: Theatre / Storytelling
Open Eye Theatre presents
BROOMSTICK
October 3 – 31, 2024
By John Biguenet
Featuring Cheryl Willis
Directed by Joel Sass
Open Eye offers up a frightfully fun show perfectly suited to the season of ghosts, haunted houses, black cats and pumpkins. Don’t miss this twisted yarn of delightful humor and spine-tingling suspense that will conjure a spooky experience unlike any other.
OPEN EYE MAINSTAGE: Puppetry
Open Eye Theatre presents
FULL MOON PUPPET SHOW
November 14 – 16, 2024
Hosted by Liz Howls
Featuring works by Lys Akerman-Frank, Brant Bollman, David Valentine, Felicia Cooper, Eva Adderley, Mackenzie Lageson & Kaden Kelsheimer, Monica Rojas, and Steve Ackerman
Join us under the full moon for an adult, rowdy puppet slam. Featuring performances by some of the most innovative Twin Cities puppetry artists and live music between acts!
OPEN EYE MAINSTAGE: Theatre / Puppetry / Music
Open Eye Theatre presents
SCROOGE IN ROUGE
An English Music Hall Christmas Carol
November 29 - December 29, 2024
Created by Ricky Graham, Jeffery Roberson & Yvette Hargis
Original music by Jefferson Turner
Celebrate the season with a Christmas Carol turned holiday boilermaker – a raucous, drag-fueled extravaganza with outrageous costumes, sassy lyrics, and side-splitting performances guaranteed to get your spirits soaring!
OPEN EYE MAINSTAGE: Theatre / Music / Storytelling
Open Eye Theatre presents
INVISIBLE FENCES
March 2025
Created & Performed by Gaelynn Lea and Kevin Kling
With Jeremy Ylvisaker
Singer-songwriter Gaelynn Lea and storyteller-playwright Kevin Kling combine their talents in an original musical fable, which weaves together storytelling and song to create a unique theatrical experience celebrating Disability Culture.
OPEN EYE MAINSTAGE: Puppetry
Open Eye Theatre presents
PUPPET LAB FESTIVAL
May 9 - 18, 2025
Led by Co-Artistic Directors Oanh Vu and Sofia Padilla
Artists TBD
PUPPET LAB is a 2-week festival of radical, genre-expanding, boundary–pushing puppet work, the culmination of a 6-month development residency for emerging puppetry and mask artists.
GUEST ARTIST SERIES: Theatre
Open Eye Theatre presents a Walking Shadow Theatre Company production
WITCH
March 22 – April 13, 2025
By Jen Silverman
Directed by Cody R. Braudt and Amy Rummenie
The Devil comes to town, seeking souls and granting wishes. But the local witch, Elizabeth, has a different idea. Based on a true story.
GUEST ARTIST SERIES: Puppetry / Theatre / Music
Open Eye Theatre presents a Bart Buch production
ODE TO WALT WHITMAN
May/June 2025
Created & Performed by Bart Buch
Bart Buch’s acclaimed ODE TO WALT WHITMAN is a tender, silent puppet poem that uncovers a dialogue between Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca. Within the context of an online gay chat room, their poetic dialogue contrasts Whitman’s America, a nation full of lovers and comrades, with what Garcia Lorca sees, an America inundated with machines and tears.